Some high-school students were thrilled yesterday with news that they may soon have the option to check their contraband cellphones at the door for a fee – but not all were sold on the idea.

A proposed pilot program, first reported in The Post, would place coin-operated storage lockers outside a handful of schools next fall.

The expected storage charge would range from 25 to 50 cents.

“It sounds retarded,” blurted Aaron Noorani, a 15-year-old freshman at Beacon HS in Manhattan, who unabashedly carries a cellphone to school. “My parents would not want me putting a phone in a locker outside.”

But a few blocks away at the HS for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice, where metal detectors make sneaking phones inside the school difficult, Mayte Gonzalez had a different take.

“Hell, yeah, I’d pay it. I’d pay $1 for that,” said Gonzalez, a 17-year-old junior. “People who can sneak their phones in don’t know what it feels like to have no way to communicate with your parents and friends.”